Paul Williams

With all due respect to Christmas, Micky Dolenz’s concert Friday at Musikfest Café at ArtsQuest in Bethlehem would have been better without it.

Dolenz, former lead singer of the 1960s television band The Monkees, performed Micky’s Monkees Christmas, a show scheduled after he postponed his July 31 show at the venue because it was too close to The Monkees’ May 27 show at nearby Sands Bethlehem Event Center.

The 85-minute show meshed nine (or 10; more about that later) Monkees hits with a dozen Christmas songs. But The Monkees songs were by far and away the best of the set – and clearly the reason the crowd of nearly 400 was there.

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